Cover -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 1. BEYOND THE NEW DEAL -- The New Deal Ideal -- A New Generation Confronts the New Deal -- 2. THE MYTH OF EXPERTISE -- From Statute to Policy -- The Distorting Prism of Litigation -- Litigation and Long-Range Planning -- 3. THE POLITICS OF IGNORANCE -- Filling the Analytic Gap -- Asking the Wrong Questions -- The House Proposals of 1976 -- The Uses of Technocratic Intelligence -- Political Convenience and Legal Ambiguity -- Low-Visibility Politics -- 4. THE MYTH OF MAJORITY RULE -- Energy Policy Takes Center Stage -- Regional Protectionism in the Open -- Midnight Lawmaking -- Congressional Breakdown? -- 5. TO WHAT END? -- A Thought Experiment -- Defining the Problem: SO[sub(x)] -- Protecting Health and Environment in the East: The Perils of Scrubbing -- Beyond the East: The Visibility Problem -- 6. EXPERTISE IN THE SERVICE OF POLITICS -- EPA at the Crossroads -- An Agency at War with Itself -- Executive Politics -- Technocratic Ascendancy -- Agency Decision -- 7. AGENCY-FORCING AND THE ROLE OF COURTS -- The Agency-Forcing Statute -- The Principle of Full Inquiry -- The Principle of Textual Priority -- The Coordination Principle -- Beyond Formalistic Review -- 8. REFORM -- Learning from Experience? -- The Importance of Institutional Design -- Ends and Means in Environmental Law -- NOTES -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V.